SB2024110832 - Cross-site scripting in Persian WooCommerce SMS plugin for WordPress
Published: November 8, 2024
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-9213)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the remove_query_arg function. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e8845d56-2e8a-472a-bc32-e26b388ce58d?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/persian-woocommerce-sms/tags/7.0.2/src/Subscribe/Contacts.php#L527
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/persian-woocommerce-sms/tags/7.0.2/src/Subscribe/Contacts.php#L290
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/persian-woocommerce-sms/tags/7.0.2/src/Subscribe/Contacts.php#L412
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3170258/persian-woocommerce-sms/trunk/src/Subscribe/Contacts.php